A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation-
controller. Survey questions of type password are write-only and stored
encrypted, displayed only as a placeholder on read. When a schedule or
workflow job template node is revalidated against a tightened survey
specification, the controller decrypts the stored password and includes its
plaintext value in the minimum/maximum length validation error message
returned in the HTTP response. A user with the delegated JobTemplate Admin
role can tighten the survey length constraint and trigger revalidation of a
schedule or node created by another, higher-privileged user, thereby
recovering that user's stored password in plaintext.
controller. Survey questions of type password are write-only and stored
encrypted, displayed only as a placeholder on read. When a schedule or
workflow job template node is revalidated against a tightened survey
specification, the controller decrypts the stored password and includes its
plaintext value in the minimum/maximum length validation error message
returned in the HTTP response. A user with the delegated JobTemplate Admin
role can tighten the survey length constraint and trigger revalidation of a
schedule or node created by another, higher-privileged user, thereby
recovering that user's stored password in plaintext.
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Thu, 24 Sep 2026 04:00:00 +0000
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| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.5::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.5::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.5::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.5::el9 |
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Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:30:00 +0000
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Redhat ansible Automation Platform Developer
Redhat ansible Automation Platform Inside |
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| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.6::el10 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.6::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.6::el10 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.6::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.6::el9 |
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Redhat ansible Automation Platform Developer
Redhat ansible Automation Platform Inside |
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Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:00:00 +0000
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| Description | A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation- controller. Survey questions of type password are write-only and stored encrypted, displayed only as a placeholder on read. When a schedule or workflow job template node is revalidated against a tightened survey specification, the controller decrypts the stored password and includes its plaintext value in the minimum/maximum length validation error message returned in the HTTP response. A user with the delegated JobTemplate Admin role can tighten the survey length constraint and trigger revalidation of a schedule or node created by another, higher-privileged user, thereby recovering that user's stored password in plaintext. | |
| Title | Automation-controller: automation-controller-container: automation-controller: write-only survey password recovered in plaintext via schedule/workflowjobtemplatenode survey min/max validation error message | |
| First Time appeared |
Redhat
Redhat ansible Automation Platform |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-209 | |
| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2026-09-24T03:40:52.167Z
Reserved: 2026-09-01T20:50:45.963Z
Link: CVE-2026-84499
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Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-09-23T19:19:40.233
Modified: 2026-09-24T04:18:00.470
Link: CVE-2026-84499
OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-09-23T21:00:13Z
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